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Director's Discretionary Time Summary : Semester 2019B GN

The data shown in the tables below summarise the programs that constitute the "Director's Discretionary Time" (DDT) on GN. DDT proposals are typically for time-critical observations which cannot wait for the normal proposal cycle (e.g. unexpected astronomical events) or for testing the feasibility of a technique or of a program. See the DDT web page for more information. DDT proposals may be submitted at any time by any astronomer world-wide.

In other respects - contact scientist support, Phase II definitions, Gemini Science Archive data distribution - DDT programs are similar to other Gemini queue programs.

This report is generated daily (see the bottom of the page for the current timestamp). The pages linked via Execution Status are updated approximately every 4 hours. Note that the completion fraction may change as the time accounting is adjusted during the quality assessment process.

The columns in the table for Gemini North are:
Ref # Gemini reference number (note that this is different from any internal National TAC reference number). Click on it to see the proposal abstract (when available).
PI Name of Principal Investigator. (If a joint proposal, the name of the primary contact for the entire program is listed).
Partner Partner (UH = University of Hawaii, GS=Gemini staff) or country (US, UK, CA, CL, AU, AR, BR) to which time will be charged. If a joint proposal, all contributors are shown.
Title The title of the science program.
Instrument Name of the instrument(s) required.
Hours Allocated Time allocated to the program (if a joint proposal, this is the total time for the program).
Execution Status Click on this hyperlink to see the current status of each observation in the program.
Data Taken The UT date(s) on which data were taken.
Completion Status This shows an estimate of the fraction of allocated time that has been used. Note that this is a preliminary estimate and is only an indication of the completion state of the program. The completion state may not reflect the formal time accounting. Also note that some programs may be completed in less than the allocated time (e.g. if conditions were better than requested or if the request was overestimated).

The assigned support staff (Gemini Contact Scientists and National Office staff) for each Gemini North ODB and Gemini South ODB program are listed in the interactive 'snapshots' of the Observing Database (ODB).

GN Director's Discretionary Time Queue Band 1
Ref # PI Partner Title Instrument Hours
allocated
GN-2019B-DD-101 Drahus Prompt characterization of the second-known interstellar visitor 2I GMOS 2.50
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20190910 20190926 20191208 20191209 20191210 20191219 20191228		 Completion Status:
100%
GN-2019B-DD-102 Keane Search for Water ice in C/2019 Q4 GNIRS 1.50
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20190924		 Completion Status:
100%
GN-2019B-DD-103 Seccull Spectroscopic Monitoring of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), an Interstellar Comet GMOS 4.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20191006 20191013 20191021 20191023		 Completion Status:
100%
GN-2019B-DD-104 Evans The 2019 eruption of the recurrent nova V3890 Sgr Flamingos2 / GNIRS 1.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20190928 20191013		 Completion Status:
100%
GN-2019B-DD-105 Vedantham An unusual circularly polarised transient radio source: A lone exoplanet or a flash from the past? GNIRS / NIRI 1.80
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20191016 20191017 20191108 20191109 20191110 20191112 20191113		 Completion Status:
100%
GN-2019B-DD-106 Geballe Speckle Imaging of the "Eclipse" in the R Aqr System Visitor 1.20
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20191103 20191125		 Completion Status:
100%
GN-2019B-DD-107 Xu Infrared Characterization of Two Variable White Dwarfs GNIRS 3.20
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20191121 20191128 20191129		 Completion Status:
100%
GN-2019B-DD-108 Bean Science demonstration with MAROON-X: Follow-up characterization of TESS discoveries Visitor 5.00
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20191209 20191210 20191211 20191212 20191213 20191214 20191215 20191216		 Completion Status:
100%
GN-2019B-DD-109 Baldassare Investigating the nature of broad Balmer emission in the blue compact dwarf galaxy PHL 293B GMOS 0.60
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20191220 20191231 20200101 20200107		 Completion Status:
100%
GN-2019B-DD-110 Wang GNIRS Observation of the New Record Breaking Quasar GNIRS 9.20
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20200101 20200102 20200124 20200125 20200127 20200128 20200204 20200205 20200219 20200220 20200222 20200223		 Completion Status:
100%
GN-2019B-DD-111 Bolin Characterization of the first discovered Vatira asteroid ZTF09k5 GMOS / GNIRS 1.20
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20200109 20200115 20200119 20200120 20200121		 Completion Status:
100%
GN Director's Discretionary Time Queue Band 2
Ref # PI Partner Title Instrument Hours
allocated
GN-2019B-DD-201 Kilic A New Gravitational Wave Verification Binary GMOS 1.40
Execution Status: complete Dates Taken:
20191020 20191021 20191024		 Completion Status:
100%

 

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